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Ankit Kumar

PM | AI, 0→1 and Growth across transit, quick-commerce & telecom | ex-Zepto/Blinkit | Open to PM roles & advisory

Greater Delhi Area

4+ years of work experience

Zepto
Oct 20247 mosApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Reduced spoilage by 22% by engineering a real-time inventory visibility engine with automated alerts and anomaly detection. -Achieved 100% adoption within 3 months by running structured research across 10+ warehouse-operator sessions and iterating dispatch and inventory UX accordingly.
Blinkit
Jan 20247 mosJul 2024

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Led product for Express Stores, owning the Print Store product from definition to launch across 500+ dark stores.
Apr 20221 yr 3 mosJun 2023

-Drove a 38% increase in DAU as the first PM by translating 60+ user interviews and focus groups into MVP flows that shipped across three releases. -Lifted user activation 25% by defining and executing the 0→1 product roadmap. -Earned promotion to equity partner on the strength of product-led growth results.
WorldQuant Brain
Jan 20222 yrs 1 moJan 2024

Bharti Airtel
Jun 202010 mosMar 2021

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Lead- Cloud Technology
Bharti Airtel
Jun 20191 yr 1 moJun 2020

Networks ( Young Technical Leader )

Education

Indian School of Business

Master of Business Administration- PGP

Indian School of Business

20251 yr2026
Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

20154 yrs2019

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Headline

PM | AI, 0→1 and Growth across transit, quick-commerce & telecom | ex-Zepto/Blinkit | Open to PM roles & advisory

About

AI-Native Product Manager | 0→1 Builder | Agentic AI & Transit Tech I build products at the intersection of AI and operations — using agentic AI, automation, and data-driven decision-making to turn messy, manual workflows into systems that run themselves. Currently, I'm a Product Owner and hybrid Technical Program Manager at Cubic Transportation Systems, where I lead backend infrastructure for UMB, a global transit technology platform operating under a SAFe delivery framework. My recent work includes architecting a Rovo-based agentic system for capability tracking across 100+ assignments, and designing eval-driven AI workflows — including a 47-prompt evaluation dataset — to make AI outputs production-reliable, not just demo-ready. Before Cubic, I spent close to six years building consumer and platform products at Zepto, Blinkit (Zomato), Airtel, and Algosure — leading 0→1 builds, driving double-digit growth in adoption and retention, and shipping AI/ML-powered features at scale. I hold an MBA (PGP) from the Indian School of Business, where I also built a GenAI recommendation engine that doubled user retention for a student community. Technical toolkit: Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, LLM Evaluation (G-Eval), Prompt Engineering, SQL, Python, REST APIs, Jira, Confluence, Agile/SAFe, Product Strategy, 0→1 Product Development, Stakeholder Management, Cross-functional Leadership, A/B Testing, Growth Strategy, Data-Driven Decision Making, Automation (Make.com, n8n), GitHub, Azure. I'm always interested in conversations with teams building ambitious, AI-native products — especially where deep tech meets real-world operational complexity. Open to connecting.

Location

Greater Delhi Area

Work experience

Manager-2 at Zepto, Oct 2024 - Apr 2025 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -Reduced spoilage by 22% by engineering a real-time inventory visibility engine with automated alerts and anomaly detection. -Achieved 100% adoption within 3 months by running structured research across 10+ warehouse-operator sessions and iterating dispatch and inventory UX accordingly.

Manager- Express stores (Product) at Blinkit, Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Led product for Express Stores, owning the Print Store product from definition to launch across 500+ dark stores.

Growth Manager at Algosure, Apr 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, -Drove a 38% increase in DAU as the first PM by translating 60+ user interviews and focus groups into MVP flows that shipped across three releases. -Lifted user activation 25% by defining and executing the 0→1 product roadmap. -Earned promotion to equity partner on the strength of product-led growth results.

Part time research consultant at WorldQuant Brain, Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Assistant Manager at Bharti Airtel, Jun 2020 - Mar 2021 · 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Lead- Cloud Technology

Senior Executive ( Young Technical Leader) at Bharti Airtel, Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Networks ( Young Technical Leader )

Education

Master of Business Administration- PGP, Indian School of Business

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)